Open access publisher BioMed Central, in partnership with China's National Institute of Parasitic Diseases (NIPD), is set to launch a new journal, Infectious Diseases of Poverty, in Beijing on November 2, 2012 at the Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. NIPD is an initiative of China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The open access journal will publish original work on transdisciplinary research for the control of infectious diseases which affect mainly poor populations. These include various aspects of the biology of pathogens and vectors, diagnosis and detection, treatment and case management, epidemiology and modeling, zoonotic hosts and animal reservoirs, control strategies and implementation, new technologies and application. Transdisciplinary or multisectoral effects on health systems, ecohealth, environmental management and innovative technology are also considered.
The inaugural issue contains a number of themed articles on "Health system framework for controlling the infectious diseases of poverty", discussing treatment, strategies and innovative programmes which provide a linkage between policy level and academic research. NIPD Director Prof. Xiao-Nong Zhou, who is the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, writes in the editorial of the inaugural issue that the journal aims to build on the "One health, One world" approach recommended by the Global Report for Research on Infectious Diseases of Poverty. The Global Report was published in April by TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases. Infectious Diseases of Poverty welcomes all groups who are engaged in research on infectious diseases, scientific investigators, academic societies, physicians, decision makers, research funders, patient advocacy groups and educational organisations.
The journal is available at www.idpjournal.com. Article abstracts will be translated into the six official working languages of the United Nations.
